Hard Hitting! The morning routines reminded me of scenes from the brilliant movie 'The Great Indian Kitchen' - husband and father in law are having their zen moment reading paper or practicing pranayama/yoga while women of the house are struggling to put food on the table! At recent Ganesh puja celebrations in my apartment, I realized th…
Hard Hitting! The morning routines reminded me of scenes from the brilliant movie 'The Great Indian Kitchen' - husband and father in law are having their zen moment reading paper or practicing pranayama/yoga while women of the house are struggling to put food on the table! At recent Ganesh puja celebrations in my apartment, I realized that for every person participating in the cultural activities, the spouse is always missing. Rare case of women participating, the husband is at home with kids. Problem with all the videos and self-help books is that they have documented cases where the hacks work, but don't list out cases/situations/people for whom it won't work. Washing machine/Dishwasher solves the mechanical part of the job but it won't solve the mental/physical task of loading/unloading vessels or folding of dried clothes. So one might have outsourced one part of the work, but you are now in another work while mentally thinking of when you have to step back to pick up from the machine.
Hard Hitting! The morning routines reminded me of scenes from the brilliant movie 'The Great Indian Kitchen' - husband and father in law are having their zen moment reading paper or practicing pranayama/yoga while women of the house are struggling to put food on the table! At recent Ganesh puja celebrations in my apartment, I realized that for every person participating in the cultural activities, the spouse is always missing. Rare case of women participating, the husband is at home with kids. Problem with all the videos and self-help books is that they have documented cases where the hacks work, but don't list out cases/situations/people for whom it won't work. Washing machine/Dishwasher solves the mechanical part of the job but it won't solve the mental/physical task of loading/unloading vessels or folding of dried clothes. So one might have outsourced one part of the work, but you are now in another work while mentally thinking of when you have to step back to pick up from the machine.